Jane Fonda declares shes not done in SAGs 2025 Life Achievement Award speech: And I can conjure up voices!

Everyone loves Jane.Jane Fonda got a standing ovation at the 2025 SAG Awards Sunday as she got onstage to accept the Life Achievement Award, which went to Barbra Streisand last year.Julia Louis-Dreyfus presented the award to Fonda, 87, in front of the star-studded crowd at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, after a montage played that highlighted Fonda’s film and TV career.“This means the world to me,” Fonda said to the crowd.

“Thank you SAG AFTRA.Your enthusiasm makes this seem less like a late twilight of my life, and more like a go girl, kick ass.

Which is good because I’m not done.”“I have had a really weird career.Totally unstrategic.

I retired for 15 years and then I came back at 65 which is not usual, and then I made one of my most successful movies in my 80s.And probably in my 90s I’ll be doing my own stunts in an action movie.”Fonda went on to call herself a “late bloomer” and said that her SAG Award is “the flower show.”“I love acting,” she continued.

“We get to open people’s minds to new ideas and help them laugh when things are tough — like now.And for a woman like me who grew up in the 40s and 50s when women weren’t supposed to have opinions and get angry, acting gave me a chance to play angry women with opinions.”Fonda also said she’s “a big believer in unions” including SAG-AFTRA.

“What we create is empathy.Our job is to understand another human being so profoundly that we can touch their souls.

We feel their joy.”After Fonda’s speech awkwardly got interrupted by an announcer, she joked, “And I can conjure up voices!”Fonda then spoke about the importance of showing “empathy” to others.“We must not isolate.

We must stay in community.We must find ways to project an inspiring message of the future.

There will still be love.There will still be beauty.

And there will be an ocean of truth for us to swim in.”“Let’s make it so.Thank you for this encouragement,” she concluded...